making ISO images

[Edward Glowacki]

Quoted from Adam McDougall on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:14:59AM -0400:
> Edward Glowacki wrote:
> > 
> > OK, I'm looking to back up my home directory on my machine at work
> > to CDR.  The problem is that my workstation doesn't have a burner,
> > so I need to build the ISO (actually more than one...) on my machine,
> > then copy it over to another machine to actually do the burn.  So
> > I was looking for a tool that would allow me to select a bunch of
> > directories, add up the total space so I know that it will fit on
> > a disc, then make an ISO image with all that data.  I tried xcdroast,
> > gcombust, and koncd, and none of them seemed to work very well for
> > what I was trying to do.
> 
> What dont you like about gcombust?  I like it and was going to suggest
> it since you can add dirs/files (even by dragging and dropping if you
> want) and click a button to total it, with a selection for cd size. The
> total goofs up when you add too much but I *think* it highlights stuff
> it suggests to remove to make it fit.  I usually add a few hundred megs
> then go step by step till its near full.  

Basically selecting files is a PITA, I really don't like the way
it works.  I went back to look at it more closely and try to remember
why I didn't like it, and realized that I wasn't able to just make
an ISO image.  In poking around, I eventually figured it out, making
it my first successful attempt to build an ISO from parts of my
home dir.  It's not very obvious...  Basically the interface needs
a lot of work.


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Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu
Michigan State University	
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